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ELECTRIC TIME INDIGATING SYSTEM.

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I O. A. HUSSEY. ELECTRIC TIME INDIGATING SYSTEM. No. 350,434. Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

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CHARLES A. HUSSEY,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELECTRlC TiME-lNDlCATlNG SYSTEM.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,434, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed June 2S, 1880;

To (all whom it may concern.-

Serial No. 206.464. (No model.)

I of the wheel A comes opposite the wheel A'-,

Beit known that I, CHARLES A. IIUssnY, of J the latter drops into it, the arm A descend- New York, in the county and State of New ing with this wheel.

York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in ElectricTime-Indicating Systems, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide for operating any desirable number of secondary or electric clocks in a time-telegraph from a single mechanical clock or regulator.

Heretofore it has been practically impossi ble to operate a great number of secondary or electric clocks from a single regulator without having so much battery force in circuit as to produce damaging sparking at the corn tact-points of the regulator. I have devised an apparatus whereby the difficulty is overcome.

I will describe an apparatus or electric time-indicating system embodying the improvement, and then point out the novel fea tures in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of an electric time-indicating system embodying the improvement, one of the secondary or electric clocks being shown upon a much larger scale than the others for thepurpose of illustratingits constrnction. Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating my electric time-indicating system, and showing how it may be extended in different directions as, for instance, through intersecting streets. Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrams illustrating other examples of the improvement.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

I will iirst describe the regulator or mechanical clock. It is only partially represented, and such parts as are shown are represented in perspective.

A designates the shaft for a sweep secondshand. It is designed to make one complete rotation during each minute. This clock may be operated by a spring or weight. On the shaft A is afiixed awheel, r having a notch, a, in its periphery. Adjacent to the wheel A a wheel, A, is arranged. This wheel A is journalcd loosely in a swinging arm, A, which is pivotally connected to a rod, A. The wheel A rests upon the periphery of the wheel A. Whenever the notch a in the periphery A designates a rod which has at the lower end an offset or shoulder, a, extending under the swinging arm A". The arm A has a pro jection, a opposite the offset or shoulder a of the rod A. \Vhen the swinging arm A descends, owing to the dropping of the wheel A into the notch a of the wheel A, the projection a makes contact with. the offset or shoulder a of the rod A The rods A" A and the swinging arm A are to be made of metal. The other parts mentioned may or may not be of metal. The rods A A are to be insulated from each other. This may be done by supporting them in a frame of insulating material, r or by inter posing pieces of insulating material between them and the frame, if the latter is not made of insulating material.

I have not deemed it necessary to represent the train of wheel-work between the weight or spring supplying the motive power for the clock and the shaft A, because it may be of any suitable kind.

Having now described the regulator of the electric time-imlieating system, I will proceed to explain the circuit shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The rodA has a wire, A connected to it. This wire A leads to one pole of an electric battery, A. A wire, A, extends from the other pole of this battery, and is connected to one end of the coils of an electro-magnet, A A wire, A, extends from the other end of the coils of this electro magnet to the rod A The electro-magnet A is provided with a swing ing armature, A. From the armature A a circuit-wire, B, extends, and from a contactpoint, A, against which the armature A will be vibrated when attracted by the elec' tro-magnet A, a wire, B extends.

O designates the secondary or electric clocks, which are all substantially alike, so that their construction may be understood by reference to the one which is illustrated upon the larger scale. Each electric clock consists of a shaft, 0, which will make a complete rotation once every hour. This shaft has affixed. to it a wheel, 0 having sixty teeth. XVith. this wheel engages a tooth formed at one end of a lever, 0", the other end of said lever having affixed to it an armature for an electro-magnet, c. The ends of the coils of this electro-magnet are connected with binding-posts, from which extend wires 6 D The electro-magnets will be energized each time that the contact-points a a of the regulator or mechanical clock'co me together, and the lever 0 will then move the wheel 0 a distance equal to one tooth. The minute-hand, which is affixed to this shaft, will then move the distance which represents a minute on the dial of the clock. Any suitable gearingmay be employed to operate the hourhand shaft from the shaft 0. The wire bleading from each of the clocks O is fastened. to

vibration of the armature A against the contact-piece A electricity from the several batteriesD will flow over the said circuit-wires B B and efi'ect the vibration of the lever c of said clocks. The wires B B form one section of the main circuit. Any desirable number of clocks-as, for instance, twenty-may be arranged in this section of the circuit in manner described. From this section of the main circuit any number of other similar sections may be extended. Wherever another section is to be extended from the section just described, an electro-magnet, E, is connected in multiple arc with a battery, D, to the wires B B". Each electro-magnet E will have combined with it an armature, E, which, when attracted by the electro-magnet, will be vibrated against the contact-piece E Circuit-wires will extend from the armature E and contact-piece E and have connected to them clocks and batteries in the same way that the clocks G and batteries D are connected to the circuitwires B B In Fig. 1 I have only shown a single electro -magnct, E, connected with the circuitwires B B electro-magnet and its contact-piece E wires F F extend. These wires F F have electric clocks G and batteries H connected to them in the same way that the clocks G and batteries D are connected to the wires B B In Fig. 2 I have shown the wires B B provided with two more electro-magnets, E, and batteries D. From the armature E and contact-piece E of one of these eleetro-magnets wires 1 I extend. These wires have electric clocks J and batteries K connected to them in the same way as the clocks O and batteries D are connected to the wires B B From the other of these electro-magnets E wires L L extend, and have connected to them electric clocks M and batteries N, in the same manner as the clocks O and batteries D are connected to the wires B B 1 It will be evident from Fig. 2 that two see- From the armature E of thistions of the main circuit may be extended ofi" in different directions-as, for instance, at the intersection of streets. Each of the sections of the main circuit may have other sections extended off from it in the same manner as I have shown sections extended from the first section, consisting of the wires B B. It is obvious that a number of circuit-sections may extend in difi'erent directions from the oflice where the regulator or mechanical clock is located. Corresponding poles of the batteries which are used in connection with circuits should be similarly connected with the circuits. Inasmuch as batteries are distributed all along the circuits, the electro-motive force of the circuits will be better balanced than if a single powerful electri'o battery'were used.

Moreover, when the batteries are thus distributed along the circuit, it is not necessary for the persons engaged in operating the electric time-indicating system to hire rooms for accommodating the batteries which are necessarily used. Obviously,when an electric timeindicating system is made according to my improvcment a single regulator may operate a large number of secondary or electric clocks without the occurrence of any damaging sparking between the contact-points of the regulator.

In the examples of my improvement just described the various sections of the main circuit are complete metallic circuit-sections. In Fig. 3 I have shown similar sections, consisting of single wires, the ground being employed instead of a second wire. In this example of my improvement the secondary or electric cloeksand their'batteries are connect ed with the wires forming the circuit-sections and with the ground. The sections of the main circuit are combined, as before.

In Fig. 4 I have shown that the secondary or electric clocks may be connected in series with sections of a main circuit. The several sections of the main circuit are shown as connected with the ground and combined as in the other examples of my improvement.

I have filed an application for patent, numbered 205, 562, for an improvement in electric time-indicating systems, (primaryclocksQJune 18, 1886, in which I claim special features of construction in said primary clock. I do not herein lay claim to the special construction of said clocks, as they are claimed in said application.

I have also filed an application for patent, numbered 205,849, for an improvement in electric or secondary clocks, June 18, 1886, in which I claim special features of construction of a secondary clock. I do .not herein lay clai m to the special construction of said clocks, as they are claimed in said application.

I have filed an application for Letters Patent for an improvement in electric time-indicating systems, numbered 201,400, May 6, 1886. In thatapplication I show a primary clock, linewires leading from said clock to eleetro-magnetic mechanism for reversing the directions of the current, a battery for supplying electricity to said linewires, otherline-wires leading from said reversing mechanism to secondary clocks, an clectro-magnet in circuit with the wires leading from the reversing device for operating the hour and minute hands, and another eleetroanagnet in circuit in said line-wires for operating a calendar. In said application I also show in circuit with the electromagnets in the secondary clock, and also with the linewires leading thereto, acircuit-changing device whereby when the current is reversed by the reversing mechanism the electromagnets in the secondary clock will be alternately magnetized. In said application I also show a supplemental battery and an electromagnetic mechanism operated by the main battery to connect the supplemental battery with the line-wires in a manner to supply a current oi.

electricity in the same direction as the main battery. In said application I also show handkeys and connections in circuit with the secondary clocks and the primary clock for setting the secondary clock. I do not in the present application claim, broadly, the electric time-indicating system therein claimed.

I have filed an application for Letters Patent for an improvement in electric time-indicating systems, numbered 205,564, June 18, 1886. In this application I show a primary clock or regulator having two circuitclosing mechanisms, line-wires adapted to form two circuits, and an electric or secondary clock having two electromagnetic mechanisms for operating different parts. In this application I also show electromagnets having their armatures connected with certain of the line-wires, a main battery for supplying electricity to the linewircs connected at one pole with contactpieces, against which the said armatures will be vibrated when the elcctromagneis are energized, and connected at the other pole to one of the line wires which is not connected with the armatures, and local eircuitwircs connected to the coils or wires of the clectro-magnets and extending to circuit-closing mechanism in the primary clock or regulator. In this application I also show a supplemental battery and elcctro-imignetic mechanism for connecting the supplemental battery with either of the two circuits, as circumstances may require. I do not in this application lay claim, broadly, to the electric timeindicating system therein claimed.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an electric time-indicating system, the combination of a regulator or mechanical clock, a main circuit controlled by said regulator and composed of a number of sections, secondary or electric clocks, and a battery for each connected together in these sections, and electromagnetic closers arranged in the sec tions from which others extend, substantially as specified.

2. In an electric time-indicating system, the combination of a regulator or mechanical clock, a main circuit controlled by said regulator and composed of a number of sections, secondary or electric clocks, and a battery'for each connected together in multiple are in said sections, and electromagnetic closers arranged in the sections from which others extend, substantially as specified.

C. A. HUSSEY.

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